Apologies if this becomes part Linzblog, part paidblog for a while – it all seems to seep through somehow! On my quest to find independent artists groups: I found one! Just by accident and some word of mouth asking.. There […]
Today I’ve sorted a table top and trestles for the incubator and also a dustbin (piles of wood shavings, scrunched up masking tape. and paper cuttings). The Incubator space in the basement of Exeter Phoenix. The desk faces a window […]
Finished putting up yesterday at about 6pm. The whole experience of hanging and organising the work was rather a rollercoaster of emotions. The 3 days seemed like one long blur of frantic drawing, climbing up and down ladders, a bit […]
Had some fun playing around with some images in monoprint. Remembered that my maternal grandmother was born and spent the first thiteen years of her life in China. Her home had a number of Chinese silk scrols hanging on the […]
The Live East closing event was a great success: all the artists had around 20 minutes each to present documentation and discuss their pieces, with questions and comments thrown in by the audience. Everyone said that they’d found the project […]
Always seem to post when I’m busy at work… good to have licquorice tea breaks to type I guess. Have been working on some line drawings that I’ll post up here at the weekend. Got my essay in – that’s […]
JULIET- It’s the night before the first opening. I stayed up until half five last night finishing off a couple of drawings to go in the show but am still miraculously wide-awake. Its quite a nice feeling, I think, when […]
I have been back from Inishlacken for some weeks and am still reflecting on the experience. The work I made on there was not as successful as I had hoped it would be – but then what is success? Is […]
Sally Taylor & Emmy Twigge, ''aaa' & 'Did you do it for the art?''.
Alys Hawkins, 'Hippo Skull', pencil on paper, 2009. Courtesy: Alys Hawkins. Drawing of hippo skull (upper jaw) of unknown origin stored in the museum's archive at Eagle Warehouse.
Blackdown Hills Artists and Makers, 'The Border Project'.
Catherine Hargreaves B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art, 'Yellow Canadian Poppy', Acrylics on Canvas, June 2009. 10 inches x 10 inches
Matt’s Gallery, London
4 – 25 July 2009
Becky Mitchell, Digital Photography. Photo: Becky Mitchell. Courtesy: Becky Mitchell. 43" x 35" digital print.
Denise Russell, ''State of Undress'', Porcelain & Steel Wire Wool, July 2009. Elongated nightdresses depicting women's distorted views regarding their bodies. Hand-woven using steel wire wool, fused with porcelain.
Clare Sinclair, Charlotte Morrison, Tim Armstrong, David Mitchell, Fine Art Glass.
Evan Wood, 'new visions', Photography.